Chef John's Miso-Glazed Barramundi

This miso-glazed recipe features Barramundi, a mild, flaky, white-fleshed fish that you'll probably be seeing more and more due to its reputation as a sustainable, eco-friendly seafood. It's showing up in grocery store frozen seafood cases, and chances are you'll run across some soon. If you do, buy it and make this recipe.

• Preparation Time: 10 mins
• Cooking Time: 5 mins
• Total Time: 15 mins
• Calories: 226 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons seasoned rice vinegar
• 2 tablespoons yellow miso paste
• 2 (5 ounce) barramundi (Asian sea bass) fillets

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Whisk miso paste, rice vinegar, brown sugar, and soy sauce together in a bowl until glaze is smooth.

Step 2

Place barramundi fillets, rounded-side up, onto a plate; spread 1/2 of the glaze onto rounded side of fish.

Step 3

Heat oil over high heat in a nonstick skillet. Place fish, glazed-side down, in hot skillet and spread remaining glaze over other side; cook until slightly white around the edges, 1 to 2 minutes. Flip fish and cook until flaky and white, 1 to 2 minutes more.